Friday
December 23rd @ 9pm Mr.
Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers
Xmas Special on
Squelch TV
Kenny Millions & His Freak Panel Of Sonic Provocateurs
XELA ZAID
DOERSAM
SHARLYN EVERTSZ
RAT BASTARD
Xela Zaid
@ Squelch TV 13 December 2011
The Cortège is the
closing installment to two decades of remarkable albums and
riveting live performances from To Live and Shave in L.A.
The core trio of Ben Wolcott, Rat Bastard and Tom Smith has
led this collective of legendary music-makers since the
early 1990's
when they crossed paths in the early Miami Beach
punk/noise/experimental scene.
"We recorded The Cortège at the Sonic Youth studio in
Hoboken.
There were sixteen musicians and we wanted to avoid the
enormous cluster-fuck of everyone performing at once.
Rat Bastard cleverly devised a system to record each song
with only four musicians, plus Tom Smith singing.
More players were added as it fit each song. We wanted the
musicians to be reactive to Tom's lyrics and melodies and
not overwhelm his performance.
I knew how personal the lyrics were to Tom and that guided
the tracking and my mixing. Ultimately, I wanted to let his
words tell the story." -- Don Fleming, 2011
The TLASILA collective for The Cortège includes Ben Wolcott
(oscillator and treatments), Rat Bastard (violin), Tom Smith
(lead vocals),
Misty Martinez (lead vocal on "Flattering Circles of Hell,"
backing vocals, saxophone), Andrew W.K. (backing vocals),
Nondor Nevai (backing vocals), Cherie Lily (backing vocals),
Mark Morgan (guitar), Chris Grier (guitar), Don Fleming
(guitar),
Dimthingshine (percussion and voice), Mark Shellhaas
(percussion), Kelly Jamison (percussion),
Graham Moore (synth modules), Gaybomb (magnetic card
readers), Patrick Spurlock (electronics).
"My son, only in his early 20s, was dodging oblivion in
Iraq; my father - always a portentous, begrudgingly waggish
hulk -
grew progressively gaunt as he succumbed to cancer and
dementia; and, through Bush's odious machinations,
America was befouled, perhaps irredeemably so. The Cortège
was a gut response." -- Tom Smith, 2011
"TLASILA are what punk bands always proposed but never lived
up to." -- Thurston Moore, 2011
Tuesday November 29th @ Churchill's
Anti-Art Becomes Art
Fritz Welch (UK) & Andy Ortmann (Chicago) & Rat
Amanda Green -
Leslie Keffer - Sharkieface - Sharlyn Evertsz
@ Squelch TV - Miami Beach - 16 Nov 2011
Friday November 5th @ Audio Junkie - Winwood
Saturday
October 22th @ New Orleans
The Music Box - A Shantytown Sound Laboratory Brooklyn-based artist Swoon has re-imagined a permanent,
interactive sculpture for the Bywater neighborhood of New
Orleans.
They call it the Dithyrambalina. Itwill
look like a house, but it will function like a musical
instrument.
Sunday
October 16th
Kenny Millions @ Squelch TV Miami Beach
Blowfly
September 28th @ Automatic Slims Hardrock
September 30th @ The Vagabond
October 1st @ O Cinema
Saturday
September 24th @ Churchill's
Hearing Damage aka The Rat Opera
Saturday
September 24th -
Death to the Sun
III
@
The Snooze Theater - Lake Park,
FL
Phi-Phenomena on Wheels 2011
PHI-PHENOMENA
is a festival featuring 10 bands performing in one hour, each
playing a
5-minute set with 1-minute breaks in between. The festival was
held in New York in 1996 and
1998, Boston in 1997, Minneapolis in 1999, Los Angeles in 2000,
and a week in Miami in 2001. The style
of music performed at these festivals has included noise, free
jazz, vocal, electronic and no wave.
PHI-PHENOMENA ON WHEELS marked the first effort t take this
festival on the road. Approximately
10 bands traveled from city to city in a RV from September 6-17,
2001, some groups were drawn from
the local scenes of each city. a few bands did full-length sets
as opening acts, then followed by 10 bands in an hour
afterwards.
September 2011
9
fri - Philadelphia @ Pageant:
Soloveev Gallery
Drums Like Machine Guns - Suicide
Magnets - McCord - Thee Ultimate Vag - People Skills
LRS - FUN - Antler Piss -Paranoid Time -
Satanized - Mindless Attack
10 sat - Columbus
@
Cafe Bourbon Street
Larry Marotta -
Mike Shiflet - Mark Van Fleet / John Also Bennett - Tears
LRS - FUN - Biff Boff Barf - Ginger Fetus - Quiet Pepsi -
Ben Bennett - inbreeder
11 sun - Chicago
@
The Ministry of
Boredom
LRS - Cock E.S.P. - FUN - Rexor - Panicsville
U Can Unlearn Guitar - Relay for Death - Tarr
12 mon - Detroit
@
Pleasure Dome
Tarpit - Strange Brew - U Can Unlearn Guitar - Full Frontal
- Tightrope
(D)(B)(H) - Mall Mutants - Pinecones - Lidless Eye - LRS -
Cock E.S.P. - FUN - Rexor
13 tue - Cleveland
@
Now That's Class
Mumber Toes - LRS - Cock E.S.P. - FUN - Rexor
U Can Unlearn Guitar - Relay of Death - Shadows
14 wed - Rochester
@ Rochester Contemporary Arts Center
LRS - Cock E.S.P. -
FUN - Rexor - R Nuuja - Finkbeiner- Beastview Maul - City
Harvest Black
Foot and Mouth Disease - MNT DST - Col. Parmesan
Big Brain and the Drug Cartel - Blood and Bone Orchestra -
Relay of Death
15 thu - East Hampton
@ Flywheel
Bromp Trep - Baylies Band - Noise Nomads - Great Train
Robbery - Fake Eggs - Man Cat - David Russell
(brt, abortus fever, old pam mary) - LRS - Cock E.S.P. - FUN
- Rexor - Nondor Nevai - Relay of Death
16 fri -
Providence @ Paragon
LRS - Cock E.S.P. - FUN - Rexor - Tanya Bezreh - Suffering
Bastard - Time Ghost
Relay of Death
- Bill Belichick's Faggot
Smasher - Nondor Nevai
17 sat - New York City
@ El Dirt
LRS - Cock E.S.P. - FUN - Rexor - Ortho - Bob Bellerue
Diablo - Weasel Walter
Man Date - Loud Objects - Danny Moore - Rust Worship
Voice of the
Valley - Noise Rally Fest
August 26th - 27th - 28th 2009 - Prentis WV website
Friday August 26th Synapses
Sea Bat
Heat Death Positive Shadow
Emeralds
Lordbirdgoldencobra
Hobbledeions
Zach Kouns
Thursday Club
DJ Dog Dick
Container
Laundry Room Squelchers
Saturday August 27th
Twilight Memories of the Three Suns
Hollywood Narwhalz
Angels In America
Jason Zeh
Wether
Lexi Moutain vs. Childe Bride
Leslie Keffer
Radio People
Jerk
Bee Mask
Clang Quartet
Monopoly Child Star Searchers
Social Junk
Telecult Powers
Sunday August 28th
Ryan Jewell
Lazy Magnet
Jampong
Forma
fluxmonkey
Headboggle
Needle Gun
Weyes Blood
Moth Cock
Unicorn Hard-on
Tusco Terror
Twig Harper
Friday August 12th @ The Stone - New York City rat
bastard (guitar), weasel walter (12 string gtr, kick drum),
chris grier (gtr),
tim dahl (bass), joe merolla (radio), roger ramada (gtr tag-off) Video by
Sharlyn Evertsz
artistic director John Zorn
curated by Carlos Giffoni (No Fun)
avenue C and 2nd street
Summer Ear Conditioning
Saturday July
16th @ end gallery
155 NE 38th Street - 10pm
Rat
Bastard
Viking Funeral
Jay Hines
(a 6 week
long exploration of sound, noise, and music)
Justice Yeldham (Sydney)
Leslie Keffer (USA)
Graham Moore (USA)
HISS (Sydney)
Gary Butler (Wollongong)
Furchick (Perth)
Joel Stern (Brisbane)
B.A Lert.(Wollongong)
Cured Pink (Brisbane)
Rev Kriss Hades
Pure Evil Trio (Sydney)
Penquins
Cock Safari (Newcastle)
The Multifunctional Gut Of Fish (Sydney)
Hans Van Burenfok (Sydney)
Christian Moraga (Sydney)
Fuckno
The Spiders
Love Pile (Melbourne)
Wizard Bong (Sydney)
Happy Adults
Neckhold (Brisbane)
Null Network (Sydney)
PREHISTORIC FUCKIN' MORON (Sydney)
Rats With Wings (Sydney)
DEFEKTRO (Sydney)
Alex White (Sydney)
Tony Irving (Brisbane)
Piss Party (Sydney)
Bot Borg (Brisbane)
Forenzics
(Sydney)
Anthrocycle
(Sydney)
Drillbit (Newcastle)
Jusgo Mosh
Noyzehatenoyze
(Sydney)
Hellen Rose & The Bruised Premature Ejaculator Bros
Nhomea
B.i.N.T. (Sydney)
Fub Bak (Sydney)
Laundry Room
Squelchers (USA)
+ Noise Music and pedal market / swap meet if you want to sell /
share your shit bring it along.
Melbourne
Saturday 21st May 2011
@ KIPL
curators Mark Groves
& Leith Thomas - Sabbatical
http://www.sbbtcl.com/
Saturday
March 6th 2011 @ Luna Star Cafe
The Legendary Spider John Koerner
Saturday February 26 2011
@ The Mexican Town Bakery Loft
4300 West Vernor Highway - Detroit MI
Pengo
Rat Bastard
Precious Trombley
Cardboard Sax
International Noise Conference 2011
FEBRUARY 10th Thu -
11th Fri - 12th Sat
@ Churchill's in Miami
INC
site
Saturday January 29 2011 @ New York City -
Issue Project Room
The Rat Bastard Experience
Marc Edwards
Nondor Nevia
Chris Grier
Gibby Haynes
Ceci Moss
C Lavender
Weasel Walter
Rat Bastard